A 36-megawatt (MW) powership will be connected to the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) grid on Thursday to help supply extra power needed locally and already, Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo said the government intends to seek out more power.
“We are still looking for an additional 30MWs, similar to the arrangement with Karpowership (the company providing power through the powership),” Jagdeo said at his weekly press conference.
He noted that the additional power would be sought in a short term arrangement similar to the current powership venture. That is, power will be supplied to the main power grid for two years until the government is able to complete and operationalise the massive 300 MW Gas-to-Energy project at Wales, West Bank Demerara.
Earlier on Thursday, GPL said testing of engines, fuels and metering have been completed in efforts to successfully connect the Karpowership to the national grid where the country will benefit from the injection of additional power.
Once completed on Thursday, the team will commence dispatching power from the powership to the grid.
The power ship sailed to Everton on Saturday. There, it took up its final position and was connected to the grid on Wednesday.
The power ship is being rented by GPL from Karpowership International out of Turkey.
GPL has already paid a mobilisation fee of US$1 million to rent the power ship and it will pay 6.62 cents per kilowatt hour as a monthly charter fee plus 0.98 cents per kilowatt hour on maintenance, based on electricity generated.
The deal to rent the power ship was signed on April 13 with Urbacon Concessions Investments, W.L.L (UCI) to rent the power ship for two years.
At his press conference, Jagdeo said the government hopes the additional 36 MW of power will be able to ease the spate of power outages the consumers have been grappling with.
What Jagdeo is actually saying, he need to use the outhouse (latrine), but, there in none.
So, off he went start constructing one before he can use it.
That’s his theory as well as mine, with the manner of the fast paced housing, business construction.